Iran retaliates against US attack

Amid escalating tension between Tehran and Washington, the Iranian state TV said early on Wednesday that Iran has hit military facilities in Iraq where US soldiers are stationed. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a military wing of Iranian army, has said that Iran has fired missiles at Ain al-Asad in Anbar province and a facility in Erbil in retaliation to killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, a mastermind of Iran’s proxy war in the Middle East. Soleimani was killed last Friday in US drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital.  

Soleimani’s death provoked huge anti-American sentiment in Iran and the country’s neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq. Major Afghan politicians including former Afghan president Hamid Karzai denounced the general’s killing.